Performance test: IE8 easily doubles IE7 speed
Internet Explorer 8's speed will be better, its product manager said today, for folks who live in the real world. Tell that to the planet with the Firefox and Safari users.
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19.3.2009 Change and Speed Up the Read and Write Speed for DVD Writers - MediaCodeSpeedEdit
Before continue reading today’s article, I’d like to warn you that this is for advanced users and if you don’t know what you’re doing, you CAN damage your DVD drive and will void your warranty.
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8.8.2008 IE8 Beta 2 Next Month, Final IE8 by the End of 2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 is scheduled to drop next month, with the final version of the successor of Internet Explorer 7 confirmed for availability by the end of 2008.
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29.7.2008 Microsoft: IE6 vs. IE7 vs. IE7 in Vista
As in the case of the inhouse competition between Windows XP and Windows Vista, due to its prolonged support strategy, Microsoft is also one of its most fierce and stubborn competitors on the browser market.
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6.12.2007 Convert your firefox favorites and feeds into IE7 with "Firefox To IE7"
My friend blake, who runs windowscoding.com, has just posted this really useful application to his blog..
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30.7.2006 TheWorld Browser 2.0 RC1
TheWorld Browser is a tiny, fast, safe, powerful, multi-tabbed with multi-threaded frame browser, it is a freeware with no function limited.
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2.4.2007 Browser wars renewed
With the launch of Internet Explorer 8 as the latest volley in the browser wars—IE vs. Firefox vs. Google Chrome vs. Apple’s Safari—there’s a lot of talk about speed, browsing improvements and rendering engines. Where does security fit into the equation?
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20.3.2009 Full Speed v2.7
USB And CD Protection all in one give you the comlete conrol on your pc and important data to protect from steeling or illegal copys of your importan data and also USB protection protect your system and data too form unothorized useing.
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8.6.2007 Need For Speed ProStreet Preview
Electronic Arts made the big announcement just months ago and Need For Speed ProStreet is already shaping up into one of the best, if not THE best racing game ever developed.
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25.10.2007 New Need For Speed Game is ready
The latest EA investors meeting was a great opportunity for the company's boss, John Riccitiello to unveil a host of new and exciting projects.
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18.6.2008 Need for Speed Shift Screenshots
Eight Need For Speed: Shift Screenshots Know much about Need for Speed: Shift? Neither do we! EA's released eight new screenshots from the game that we can gaze longingly at, though.
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5.3.2009 Opera Web Browser Goes Freeware
Following a successful 24-hour giveaway last month, Opera Software has decided to drop the banner ads from its Web browser and permanently nix the licensing fee. Opera 8.5 is now available for download free of charge, putting new pressure on Firefox as it nears version 1.5.
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BitTorrent to Remain in Opera Browser
Opera released details of a plan Monday to further integrate BitTorrent capabilities into an upcoming version of its Web browser, saying integrating the technology would allow for faster and more efficient downloads of large files. The move could also anger intellectual property holders however, who see the network as a boon to piracy.
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7.2.2006 Microsoft, Mozilla look into browser flaws
Microsoft and Mozilla are each working to tackle recently disclosed security flaws in the Internet Explorer and Firefox Web browsers.
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20.2.2007 Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 - Fastest browser yet!
I’ve had a little hands-on time with Firefox 3.0 Beta 5 now and initial testing shows it to be the fastest browser available.
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2.4.2008 Microsoft: How to install a browser on Windows 7 E
Microsoft have created a guidance page on the Windows 7 part of their website, detailing how users should go about installing a browser on Windows 7 E – the main version of Windows that will ship in the UK, that comes without a browser.
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15.7.2009 Need For Speed ProStreet Demo Out. Download Here!
Well what do you know, if it isn't the Need for Speed ProStreet Demo that you can download and play right now on your PC.
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4.11.2007 Avant Browser 10.1 (Build 35)
Avant Browser is a fast, stable, user-friendly, versatile web browser. Avant Browser is a multi-window browser which features with many functions such as Pop-up Stopper and Flash Ads Filter, Built-in Google Searching, Safe Recovery, Integrated Cleaner and Advanced Browsing Options. Flash Animation Filter: More than 85% of all flash animation on web pages is advertising. These flash files are pretty large, and normally take up to 90% of the size of the page you're visiting.
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14.12.2005 March Security360 Preview: Browser Security
This month's Security360 webcast examines tactics for helping to secure the world's most popular software application, as well as security features in Internet Explorer 7.
The Web browser is the most ubiquitous desktop application in the computing world. Whether it's at home or at work, just about everyone uses one. Using the Web browser is the number one daily activity for business users to conduct research and access company applications.
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18.3.2006 New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles
With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet searching in its new Web browser.
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1.5.2006 MS agrees to browser choice in Europe
Microsoft is willing to give Windows 7 users in Europe a choice of browsers, rather than simply no browser.
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26.7.2009 Best Need for Speed Underground 2 videos and download demo
Discover the living, breathing world of tuner culture in Need for Speed? Underground 2, the sequel to the best-selling racing game of 2003, and the latest blockbuster installment in the legendary Need for Speed franchise.
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Siemens Breaks Network Speed Record
German electronics company Siemens said Wednesday that it had set a new network speed record, achieving a speed of 107 gigabits -- the equivalent of roughly two DVDs worth of data -- per second, two and a half times faster than the previous record.
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21.12.2006 Vista SP1 Gives Extenders a Speed Boost
Word is that Vista SP1 is giving Linksys Extenders a bit of a speed boost, especially in the transition and animation field.
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25.3.2008 How to Speed up Taskbar Thumbnail Preview in Windows 7
Windows 7 has much better aero transparency glass effect along with taskbar thumbnail preview. Taskbar Thumbnail Preview displays small thumbnail preview of opened window on your taskbar when you hover your mouse on taskbar icons. Many users have started loving taskbar thumbnail preview of windows 7.
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9.2.2009 Speed Test: Windows 7 May Not Be Much Faster Than Vista
Though Windows 7 edged out Vista in our lab tests, you may not notice much of a difference.
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7.5.2009 Maxthon Browser v1.5.9 build 30 Combo
Maxthon Internet Browser software is a powerful tabbed browser with a highly customizable interface.
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6.2.2007 Microsoft Silverlight WPF/E Web browser plug-in
Microsoft on Monday showed video pros at NAB Silverlight, a new Mac and PC-compatible Web browser plug-in that provides interactive Web capabilities similar to how Adobe Flash works with streaming video capabilities superior to QuickTime, according to the company.
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23.4.2007 European XP, Vista users to pick browser
Microsoft posted on its Web site on July 24 the details of its proposal to the European Commision (EC) designed to settle its browser-bundling antitrust case in Europe.
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27.7.2009 Samsung develops new graphics memory speed limit
Samsung is getting ready to produce extremely fast memory chips to be used on future graphics cards.
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25.2.2007IE8, and why it's almost my default browser
Microsoft recently released Internet Explorer 8, and while I find that it is a great piece of software, it had a few shortcomings which left Google
Chrome untouched with respects to my default browser selection. There is absolutely no doubt that IE8 is better than IE7, its predecessor. It is
faster, more robust and certainly more stable. There are also some great new features; I am quite fond of IE8's Web Slices. I utilized a web slice
for Digg's top stories and to observe some stock quotes and I found it seamless and quite enjoyable.
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31.03.2009IE8 - Standards Mode and IE7-Compatibility Mode
As you all know, the Internet Explorer team has been working hard to make IE8 the most standards compliant browser around. Unfortunately, not all web
sites confirm to these standards today. If you have concerns about your web site rendering correctly in IE8 standards mode, then there is some help
for you out there...
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28.08.2008Microsoft's IE architect: IE8 is what we've been building up to
FROM MIX 08 For Internet Explorer platform architect Chris Wilson, IE8 is more than just a new version. It's the realization of an effort that
began with IE7 to build the best Web browser for both developers and consumers...
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07.03.2008IE7 vs. IE8 in VSTS 2008 SP1 Load test
As we all know, IE8 is coming out soon (Beta 2 is already released) and one of the major performance changes in IE8 is opening up to 6 concurrent
connections per host, comparing to only 2 in IE7.
So, the question is: Does VSTS have IE8? And if it does, does it really open 6
connections per host?
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10.10.2008IE8 to be More Reliable
In a post on the IEBlog today, the development team announced some brand new features to IE8, which they say will improve the browser's reliability.
The most notable improvement is dubbed "Loosely-Coupled IE" (or "LCIE" for short). LCIE essentially splits the browser into several
pieces, therefore should one part of the browser crash, the rest of the browser can continue to function. So say a web page you are currently viewing
in one tab locks up, in IE7, this would mean all other tabs are locked as well, however with IE8; the remaining tabs are still accessible and fully
functional.
Another anticipated feature is the new Automatic Crash Recovery, in which IE8 is capable of recovering any tab, as well as
any unsaved form data within that tab, should it crash.
For details outlining the remaining features, continue reading at the IEBlog.
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29.07.2008IE8 JavaScript Benchmarks -- It's faster
One of the things immediately noticeable in the latest beta (beta 2) of Internet Explorer 8 was how much faster it is. I thought I'd see for myself
how much faster it
really is by running a JavaScript benchmark, since that is one thing that really has slowed down IE in comparison to its
competitors. Google has put
a benchmark it used while creating their
Chrome browser live on the web, but it also lets us see how IE8 stacks up against its
predecessor. So I ran it.
I ran the test on a 2.8GHz P4 running Windows Vista.
* IE7 benched in at 24, 23
and 29 for an average of 28.6
* IE8 received 37, 40 and 40 for an average of 39
As you can see, IE8 is about 36% faster than IE7 in JavaScript! While it's a good improvement, we can still see that work needs
to be done, and will surely increase with every beta release we see of IE8...
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04.09.2008Safari 4 beta released, Apple claims speed boosts
Apple has been working on the next major upgrade to their Safari web browser for both Mac and Windows PC to improve speed, reliability, and stability.
The browser is announced to be up to 3 times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and Mozilla's Firefox 3. Safari 4 comes loaded with
the new Nitro Engine for javascript to help browsers execute scripts faster. Apple announced the web browser can execute
javascript 30 times faster than IE7 and 3 times faster than Firefox 3. The browser can also load HTML pages 3 times faster than IE7 and 3
times faster than Firefox 3.
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24.02.2009IE8 via Automatic Update for users running IE6 or IE7
Microsoft plans to distribute Internet Explorer 8 to computers running previous versions of IE (IE 6 or IE 7) via Automatic Updates starting from the
3rd week of April. The update will be rolled out gradually from a small user base to large number of users. The update will be a 'high
priority' update for systems running Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 and is an 'important' update for Windows Vista and Windows Server
2008. The final version of IE8 was distributed via automatic update recently to users still running pre-release versions of IE8, Beta 2/RC1.
Organizations can use the IE8 Blocker Toolkit to block automatic delivery of IE8.
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11.04.2009On second thought, IE8 will default to full Web standards
Should Microsoft choose for IE8 to follow the standards developers want or the ones they use ? It's been a tough call, and late
yesterday, the company reversed that call. Unlike IE7, IE8 will by default use "Standards mode."..
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04.03.2008IE8 Performance
Google has commented on our IE8 Beta 1 improvements, and we’ve made IE8 even faster since then. Some of the tests we have done show pure JScript
performance improvements up to 2.5 times. We also measured the performance gains on common Gmail operations, like loading the inbox (34%), opening a
conversation (45%) and opening a thread (27%) compared to IE7. Thus far, tweaks to the JScript engine have contributed to improve IE8’s
performance on the SunSpider benchmarking suite by 400% compared to IE7.
The second area in which we are invested heavily in IE8 is in
improvements to our memory usage. To date we have fixed just under 400 separate memory leaks in Internet Explorer. For users, these changes reduce the
amount of memory consumed by IE, improve our startup times, speed up navigating between pages, and help IE remain stable for longer periods of time.
As we started building IE8 it was clear that we could do more to take advantage of the increasing prevalence of high bandwidth connections. Two key
improvements we made with IE8 were to unblock downloads in the presence of external scripts and to increase the number of parallel connections per
server that we support.
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27.08.2008IE8 development: Microsoft should learn from Apple, Mozilla
Internet Explorer 8 is set to be Microsoft's most standards compliant browser ever. After
originally stating that IE8 would default to the same noncompliant
behavior exhibited by IE7, Microsoft
relented and plumped for
standard-by-default.
The first beta of IE8 was released in March and it
did indeed default to standards compliance. Web developers have been
clamouring for standards compliance for a long time; IE is a long way behind the competition, requiring considerable hacks and workarounds to get
pages working properly. IE8 should make things a lot better—but it will still fall far short of the standards set by Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
Some of these problems are technical, but others are cultural. Where the other browser developers are open and communicative, Microsoft is still
leaving web developers in the dark.
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16.06.2008Microsoft: All versions of IE have critical new bug
Microsoft has confirmed that the unpatched bug in Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) that hackers are now exploiting also exists in older versions of the
browser, including the still-widely-used IE6. It adds IE6 and IE8 Beta 2 to the list and recommends disabling the Oledb32.dll to stay safe. A Danish
security researcher added that Microsoft's original countermeasure advice was insufficient and recommended that users take one of the new steps
the company spelled out. In a revised security advisory, Microsoft said research confirmed that the bug is within all its browsers, including those
it currently supports -- IE5.01, IE6 and IE7 -- as well as IE8 Beta 2, a preview version that the company doesn't support through normal channels.
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13.12.2008IE8, and why fixing that pesky 'tab issue' sealed the deal
In my most recent piece, "IE8, and why it's almost my default browser", I outline a couple of factors that inhibited IE8 from holding the
default browser position on my PC. Since writing that article, due in part to some helpful Neowin members and some quality time with IE8, I have since
awarded IE8 that coveted position on my PC and have promptly thrown Google Chrome to the curb. Perhaps the most taxing of my issues was what has been
colloquially referred to as the 'tab issue'. Many users have complained of severe delays when opening new tabs in Internet Explorer.
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03.04.2009Interview: Microsoft Exec
Talks IE7, RSS
Following a decision to
release a standalone version
of IE7, browser development at
Microsoft has come fast and
furious. BetaNews this week
sat down with Gary Schare,
Director of IE Product
Management, to discuss the
changes coming in IE7,
Firefox's growth, and how
Microsoft will bring RSS to
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18.02.2006Microsoft Releases Public IE7
Preview
Microsoft on Tuesday made
available for public download
a pre-Beta 2 release of
Internet Explorer 7, which is
designed to showcase features
the new browser will bring and
give developers time to play
with the latest technology.
IE7 notably adds a tabbed
interface and improves browser
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31.01.2006IE8 RTM expected in March
TechARP has predicted that Microsoft will reach IE8's RTM milestone in March during the last 2 weeks. TechARP expects so because Microsoft plans
to announce the final details of the IE8 RTM schedule and available language versions by March 5, 2009. The malaysian website also expects Microsoft
to determine a time frame for the public release of IE8 via Windows Update by March 8. There was a time gap of 8 weeks between IE7's RC1 and its
public release. A similar 8-weeks time limit applied to IE8's RC1 in January suggests the final build's availability around March 23 according
to TechARP.
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18.02.2009Firefox 2.0 vs. IE7 in Vista: How Close?
Whatever Firefox 2.0 is, it
isn't "sweeping," and
nowhere does that fact become
more evident than in a Windows
Vista test environment. We
started up both IE7 and FF2 in
Vista, and were left
wondering, will Firefox users
be happy using their browser
in Vista without the
degree of changes they'd
experience with IE7?..
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26.10.2006Hachamovitch: Please don't mistake silence for inaction
Dean Hachamovitch has posted an update on the IE Team Blog in reaction to Bill Gates mentioning IE8 at the Mix ‘n Mash event on the Redmond
campus yesterday. Bill was talking to some bloggers about IE.Next and called it IE8.
So, yes, the version after IE7 is IE8. We looked at a
lot of options for the product name. Among the names we considered and ruled out:
- IE 7+1
- IE VIII
- IE 1000 (think
binary)
- IE Eight!
- iIE
- IE for Web 2.0 (Service Pack 2)
- IE Desktop Online Web Browser Live Professional Ultimate
Edition for the Internet (the marketing team really pushed for this one ;-)
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06.12.2007Tests: Firefox 3.1 JavaScript outpaced by Safari 4, Google Chrome
If the race to be the biggest alternative Windows Web browser to IE8 comes down to JavaScript interpreter speed, the latest Firefox will have some
catching up to do.
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13.03.2009Microsoft Australia: Find $10,000 on the Internet using IE8
Here's an interesting way to promote your browser: The Australian division of Microsoft is running a competition in which you can 'find'
$10,000 hidden somewhere on the Internet. As you can probably imagine, the only way to win at this is by using the latest addition to the Internet
Explorer family, IE8. Here's the steps Microsoft want you to go through in order to be up and running with this: 1) Ditch the web browser
you're using. If you try to find the $10,000 with your current browser, you'll get nowhere. 2) Download Microsoft's best ever browser,
Internet Explorer 8. It's the only browser capable of cracking all the clues. 3) Follow @tengrand_IE8 on Twitter for the daily clues.
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